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Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser (c.1287/1289 [1] [2] – 24 November 1326), also referred to as "the Younger Despenser", [3] was the son and heir of Hugh Despenser, Earl of Winchester, (the Elder Despenser) and his wife Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. [4]
The Despenser family's fortunes also suffered with the executions of Eleanor's husband and father-in-law. Eleanor and Hugh's eldest son Hugh (1308–1349), who held Caerphilly Castle against the queen's forces until the spring of 1327, was spared his life when he surrendered the castle, but he remained a prisoner until July 1331, after which he ...
The first creation was in 1295, when Hugh the elder Despenser was summoned to the Model Parliament. He was the eldest son of the sometime Justiciar Hugh Despenser (d. 1265), son of Sir Hugh le Despenser I (above). The sometime Justiciar was summoned in 1264 to Simon de Montfort's Parliament and is sometimes considered the first baron.
Barony of le Despenser: Hugh le Despenser (sheriff) (1218–1238) Hugh Despenser ... Held by a branch of the Hussey family Barony of Skryne: Richard de Feypo I ...
Hugh was captured and sentenced to public execution by hanging (for thievery), and drawing and quartering (for treason). Hugh le Despencer, Baron le Despencer (1338) (1308–1349), the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger, fought at the battles of Sluys and Crécy. He was created a baron by writ of summons to Parliament in 1338 ...
Despenser was the son of Hugh le Despencer (1223–1265, briefly Justiciar of England) and Aline Basset, only daughter and heiress of Philip Basset.His father was killed at the Battle of Evesham when Hugh was a boy, but Hugh's patrimony was saved through the influence of his maternal grandfather, who had been loyal to the king.
The long-threatened civil war finally broke out in England in 1321, [195] triggered by the tension between many of the barons and the royal favourites, the Despenser family. [196] Hugh Despenser the Elder had served both Edward and his father, while Hugh Despenser the Younger had married into the wealthy de Clare family, become the King's ...
He was created Baron Despenser by writ of summons to Parliament in 1295, thereby making Lady Isabella Baroness Despenser. Together Lord and Lady Despenser had four children: Hugh le Despenser, Lord Despenser the Younger (1286 – executed 24 November 1326), [ 2 ] married Eleanor de Clare , by whom he had issue.